I was so hopeful of this place and was highly of disappointed. The food did not have any flavor to it at all. It was very bland. The soup has one wonton in it and the meat inside it has a strange smell and taste to it. Also it like it was old. The chicken did not have any flavor to it at all. The rice would have been great if the veggies weren't soggy tasting. I unfortunately just did not enjoy this place at all. And it sucks because the lady was so nice at the front desk too. read more

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Delicious! The food here is high quality. The spring rolls are incredible and the sesame chicken was some of the better sesame chicken I've had! The service was great, too. Looking forward to going back. read more

Not sure why the bad reviews. Haven't been here in a long time and I'll say I'll be back sooner than later! I ordered Mongolian chicken. The dinner portion is HUGE and food came hot and fresh! Their wonton soup is the best! The waitress has been there for years and she always remembers everyone! Love this place! It's small and quant which is my vibe read more

I always get a carryout that I order for both me and my friend. I take it to her in the nursing home. It is her big delight to get it once every two weeks she loves their vegetable chow mein so I ordered the same thing. I take it to her and we show lunch at the nursing home. This is her favorite Chinese Restaurant. She's been in this nursing home for over a year and this is the highlight of her day when I bring it to her. They are so courteous they always give me paper plates so it's easier for her to eat when we get there and she absolutely adores it. It's absolutely so good. The staff is so friendly and so nice couldn't ask for read more

Food was delicious. All fresh and hot. Soup was tasty, rice was good, chicken was tender and the vegetable delight was so good. Portions were generous. Service was fast. Definitely going back. read more

Ordered their version of Kung Pao Chicken. The dish was 3/4 celery. The picture I am including shows the amount of celery remaining after I ate the chicken and the few peanuts. read more

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A little update!! New paint, new decor, totally fresh. Looks great! Like the colors. Had a terrific lunch. Great, personal service, friendly and efficient. Love the new look and totally enjoyed lunch today!! Highlights: fresh, crispy crab Rangoon, delicious chicken with garlic and finger sauce and super tender, but crispy almond chicken!! Lovely little place with big flavors!! Great local establishment! read more

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Dine-in experience was sub average. Maybe carry out provides a better experience. Waitresses were nice, but clad in street t-shirts and jeans. Mexican music from the kitchen and non-Chinese decor with American tasting dishes just didn't cut it. East to step it up, but didn't. read more

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This place is pretty decent American Chinese Food. It's one of the only ones in the area so the location is kind of a go to for anybody that lives in a 5 mile radius. The prices are a bit high for some of the items but give them the location. I'm sure rent isn't cheap. So my go to here are usually the shrimp fried rice or the chicken fried rice. The baby shrimp fried rice, and particular is well-made, and I usually get a quart, which is about 16 bucks, which is a lot for rice, and a few shrimp when you think about it, but when you had a long day at work, and you don't feel like cooking, well, it fills you up and does so in a tasty fashion. The chicken fried rice is good but you don't really get as much balance of flavor as you do with the shrimp making a significant impact in contrast to the rice where as we are now chicken takes on the flavor of whatever it's cooked in the other item on the menu that I would recommend is the sweet and sour chicken. The sizes are pretty good it's deep fried and with a pint of white rice. The one item I will not recommend is the orange chicken because it is literally all bread and the chicken is so chewy that it's barely edible. I ordered it once and since that experience would not ordered again. This place is good for to go and usually has your order ready within 20 minutes or so which is always a bonus with to go. The inside of the restaurant has painted a nice blue collar. It's got modern touches to it including modern hanging glass. Lights and booths are pretty roomy. I'm personally never eaten inside, but I have sat on a chair, waiting for my order to come through and thought the setting was pleasant and didn't suffer from that situation that can occur at a lot of restaurants where you're like this place doesn't look great. Should I really be eating the food here? So all in all I think this place is worth a try depending on what you get. I've had their lo mein noodles as well. They're pretty good not exactly the texture that I personally like when it comes to lo mein but the flavor of the noodles is pretty good. read more

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This restaurant used to be one of my favorites but the last three times I went the food lost quality . The service is bad . The lady in the front is very rude and steals money all the time . Expect to be charged more or your change to come back without a couple dollars missing . I confronted the lady a couple of times and she returned the money . Today she blamed the computer! read more

everything tasted the same food was bland. The soup was like water. New owners, but not impressed. More costly than other places in the area. Would not recommend. read more

Horrible General Taos Chicken! Dry and old, no sauce. Pork & broccoli, spit out the "pork" but I did eat the broccoli. The egg drop soup had so much cornstarch in it my spoon stood up...Don't waste your time. I've been eating at the Livonia location for over 30 years & it used to be great but it wasn't last time so we tried this location & it was worse read more

Szechuan Empire I ordered through door dash and picked up myself. The pick up was easy and I'm glad I got carry out instead of Dine-in it's sooo small in there. I ordered a spring roll and the seafood delight dinner which came with rice and soup. The spring roll I will not order again... the dough was too thick and not crispy at all it was chewy. The seafood delight was pretty good once I added salt and pepper. The soup I got with my dinner was the Wonton soup. Uh it had 1 wonton in broth with green onion. It too needed salt otherwise it was tasteless. Maybe I ordered the wrong items because so many people rave about this place. I'm willing to try again some day. read more

Food was good but the quality of the rice. was poor. It was very sticky and hard. As if it been sitting for quite a while. Hunan chicken I should've had a few more vegetables. read more

This place used to be much nicer, but has been modified so it's darker and not that inviting. One woman was handling everything, and not with a smile on her face! Food was okay, pretty standard stuff. read more

Ordered their Happy Family Reunion meal for the first time. It is one of their house specialties. It consists of chicken, beef, shrimp, and scallops sautéed with assorted vegetables in their chef's special sauce. It smells delicious and tastes even better. Nice amount chunks of everything. Very nice varied vegetables. Chef's sauce is a brown sauce and yummy! read more

Inconsistent food spicy-ness. Sometimes mild is mild, sometimes mild is medium. They frequently get the order wrong. I ordered a dish that supposed to come with mostly broccoli with chicken and it was celery with chicken !? read more

Dine in or take-out, this place has quality food and service dialed in. Fresh hot tea brewed to order to complement the wide variety of entrees and sides. Stop in and give these guys your support, you won't regret it. read more

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Everything exceeded expectations. I had the Mongolian beef and chicken fried rice. Highly recommend both of those.

OVERALL REASON: Their greed + Lack of making anything spicy They're on a steady downtrend.   2016, I gave 5/5 July2017, rated 3.5/5 Dec2017, 2.8/5 Jul 21: 1/5  Food: I ordered the Szechuan shrimp: told her FOUR TIMES SPICY!!! it arrived so mild, an 80yo with heartburn could eat it, and sadly this happens every time; I try to give this place chances, but after 4... youve shown your colors. (for benchmarking: I usually eat Frog Ranch Salsa in Medium) It used to come with lots of veggies, every year a little less with more of their greed. Now, I saw only celery and SHREDDED carrots - too lazy to cut carrots! + it was undercooked after waiting 40+ mins. Service: took 45mins but they told me 15mins. VERY BAD Ambience: its not really for a romantic rendezvous Value: Bad Celery/a few shreds of carrots and some shrimp. $15 At that price, I can go to a nice restaurant (Hung Hua $6 more for a 4 star restaurant) Suggestions:  Hot sour soup seems like beef soup with hardly any pork in it.  They need 2 versions: Extremely mild and normal. read more

Szechuan Empire North - big chunks of mostly underdone celery + shredded carrots. Then done MILD when a) dish is spicy period b) requested spicy - Wine Bars Near Me - Commerce Township, Michigan

Their Jennifer's chicken (an off-menu dish) is so good! Lightly deep fried with a sweet/spicy red sauce. Reminds me of House of Hunan's chicken from back in the day! read more

Awesome tasty family run restaurant good made to order food, not steam-table. Shrimp scallops broccoli in brown sauce wow. I guess I was hungry. read more

Horrible experience when the bill came. I tipped 20/ percent ...waitress didn't Take up my bill looks at the money and hands it back to me!!!!! Wow. 20 percent!! What's wrong here???? What an embarrassment!!!! Never going back to this place Ever!!! It felt like she was begging .....I felt disrespected in front of my co workers. I mean it was my turn to pay ok. So I did. And waitress wasn't satisfied with a 20/ Tip.. had to give more!!!! Bad experience!!! Embarrassing I might ad!!!! Never again!!!!! No wonder it was all carryout.. No other human in site.... read more

Very clean and friendly staff! Best sesame chicken I've had in Michigan. Discovered this place a few months ago and I won't go anywhere else. read more

I have been craving some good Chinese food forever. With the lockdown I haven't ordered out much. Well, thank you Szechuan Empire;) yum! I am a General Tso junkie. But I am usually disappointed. No spice, goopy sauce and chicken fried so hard-it's powder. Well not this time! The chicken was fresh and moist with a spicy well flavored sauce. Not overly salted and the sauce wasn't laden with cornstarch or corn syrup. I enjoyed the egg roll as well, that can be a crap-shoot, but the cabbage had a wonderful flavor, almost fermented...in a good way! Thank you Empire! Nom;) read more

I was very pleasantly surprised by this place. My friend and I wanted Chinese for lunch, and our normal places were closed on Mondays so I took to Yelp and found Szechuan Empire. I ordered the general tso lunch combo which came with a soup and spring roll for $8.75. I loved my General tso chicken, because it was the lightly battered chicken breast instead of the heavily battered stuff at other places. My friend got the sesame chicken, which I tried, and it was also delicious. The sauces for both were very similar, but the General tso was sweeter. We're so glad we found this place! This is going to be our new go-to Chinese place for affordability, deliciousness, and portion size! read more

I have only had carry out fried rice here, but it was very good. The service is friendly and the prices are reasonable. The only reason I didn't give a 5 star review was because the fried rice had large pieces of onion, which I was able to easily pick out. read more

Always a good meal. The cold noddle appetizer is amazing. Just make sure you get extra chili oil to make it extra special.

What a huge disappointment. We stopped in for a light lunch, but things went downhill after the green tea! We both ordered soup. The two soups were wonton and hot and sour. We also ordered vegetable spring rolls and my fiancé ordered chop suey. Neither of the soups had any flavor and that isn't an exaggeration. Both were inedible. The server appropriately removed them from the bill. The two spring rolls were disgusting. The scant amount of cabbage and carrots were literally mush and there was more air in the center than filling. We ate neither of them. The chop suey came out and frankly I have never seen this dish without a large amount of bean sprouts. There were hardly any. What made it worse was that the sauce was laden with sugar. I have never had sweet chop suey in my life. Bottom line, this is the worst Asian food I have ever eaten. Ever. On a positive note, the green tea was very good. read more

Just called and tried to order food at 934 and the guy says I should have placed order by 930. And that he had sent his chef home. Then he tried to claim they're only open until 930 even though the sign on the door and maps says 10. NEVER GOING BACK HERE EVER AGAIN!!!! Off to PF Chang's we go. read more

Absolutely love getting this place. Awesome food for great prices. Whether it's my mid work lunch or a family dinner, always easy to order in and get great food. Would definitely recommend this place to anyone! The sesame chicken is my go-to! read more

We just moved here and were looking for a good Chinese food place for carry out. This place is incredible. We called for pick up and the wait was super short -- the owner even stayed behind a bit to give us our food because it was close to 9pm. Super fresh tasting, great food! I would highly recommend the veggie spring rolls! They are super ginger-y and good :) We shared the shrimp fried rice, shrimp lo mein, crab rangoon & veggie spring rolls! read more

The food here was really good. I ordered orange chicken and it wasn't heavily breaded. The General Tso's chicken isn't sweet like other restaurants. The only thing I didn't like was you can't get frued rice with certain combinations. read more

It is no Szechuan, it is no empire! It is really bad, generic joint making "Chinese" food for Americans who don't know Chinese food. Disappointed! More to my disappointment is that the entire staff is Chinese people! How can they make such Chinese food. Advice to all Chinese restaurant owners: make real Chinese food! That's the only way you can be successful! read more

I ate here last night. I have no idea how so many people have rated this place with 4 or 5 stars. The only reason they even get 2 stars from me, is for the fact that they are a Chinese restaurant that serves alcohol, and they had a decent spring roll. I ordered the almond chicken combination dinner plate. It clearly stated in the menu that it was breaded. I asked for it unbreaded, which is how they served it to me, but about half of the chicken was undercooked badly. The egg drop soup I had was bland. I barely had started eating my soup when they brought my dinner out. That's a nice sign that the food you're about to eat definitely hasn't been prepared to order. Not that I expect that from every Chinese restarurant I step into, but still. The spring roll was a nice break from an egg roll. I will say that was good. Also, they had a nice beer selection, with a bunch of Japanese beers. The service was far from adequate. All of the waitstaff sat around a table talking, and I had to flag them down for more water or for anything else I needed, including the bill. They never once came to ask how I was doing. Don't waste your time with this place. I'd take the extra 5 minutes to drive over to Ka Hing at Pontiac Trail and West Park Dr, or hell, even Boon Kai in Walled Lake. You'll get better service and a better meal. read more

Its been some time since I've been in Szechuan Empire, when it was still at the end of strip mall, where the Penara now sits. It use to be the best Chinese place around, but its not anymore. Maybe my tastes have changed and I prefer a more spicey Thai cuisine, but the food was bland. We went for the combo dinners, that included soup and an egg roll. The Hot n Sour soup was OK - nothing special, and the main meal was the same. But we didn't even take a left overs home. Service was fine, but there was only customers at 3-4 tables, in a restaurant that has 20+ tables. They seem to be doing a fair amount of take out food. read more

My pals Brian and Erin made the trip from Lansing to my home zone mostly to come down to visit me and take me out to lunch as I've been stuck at home with a broken ankle. I had been having serious craving for some spicy chinese food. I threw out some choices and they both lit up when i mentioned chinese. We made it over to Szechuan Empire in Commerce Twp. It was about 1230pm and we walked in and was able to sit down anywhere as we were the only customers. we all ordered from the lunch menu - my pal Brian - sweet n sour chicken, fried rice, spring roll, coca-cola. my pal Erin - sesame chicken - mild - fried rice, spring roll, coca-cola. me - chicken lomein - spicy, hot sour soup, ice tea. Everyone seemed to enjoy their food. The pops were in 20oz bottles ice cold. My ice tea tasted fresh brewed. I added a little splenda and it was perfect. There really wasn't anything wrong except my food was not spicy enough. I've been in a hot spicy food kick for several months. I asked for hot sauce and the waiter brought out a bowl of some oily hot pepper sauce in a bowl. It was very very spicy and kicked up the flavor of my lomein. Brian & Erin commented on the peas in their fried rice. They liked em, I usually despise Peas in Rice. Don't know why Chinese eateries put Peas in fried rice. Other than that it was a good lunch. The Waiter - some chinese lady, seemed like she was the manager. Only other worker was a chinese guy who I assumed was a manager or owner perhaps. He mostly sat in the corner eating something green and watching tv. read more

Pleasant Chinese restaurant in a strip mall. Good food. Nice ambiance. I had the Mushu Pork and Won Ton soup. Delish. The portions were huge. One entree could easily be shared by two people. Gordon Ramsey would say "No no! Make those plates smaller. No one should be taking a doggie bag home." (And he would some how drop an F bomb in there some how). I recommend this place. read more

Yuck Got a horrible wait staff. Mean is the only word, big chip on shoulder. Hot and sour soup was ok . Great tea but no coffee or deserts. Wife got the almond chicken that was over breaded. I got the siricha chicken special that had too Much vinegar and chicken was so gamey that it was not edible. read more

The Biggest Vegetarian Menu I have EVER seen! Great Food and the employees are so kind. Very generous portions. The BEST Chinese in TOWN!!! read more